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How law enforcement feels about Epstein files revival

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As Congress votes on the bill to force the release of the Epstein files, NBC News’ Tom Winters spoke to “Here’s the Scoop” co-host Yasmin Vossoughian about how law enforcement agents feel about yet another investigation into this case.



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Nov. 18, 2025, 4:20 PM ESTBy Erik OrtizA whistleblower who came forward to House Democrats alleging convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell received preferential treatment at a federal prison camp in Texas says she was not motivated by politics.Instead, “this was about common human decency and doing what’s right for all inmates,” Noella Turnage, a nurse who worked at Federal Prison Camp Bryan since 2019 until she was fired last week, told NBC News on Monday.She added that when even one inmate is wrongly retaliated against, “and influence gets another one protected, somebody had to say something.”The entrance to Federal Prison Camp Bryan on Aug. 1, in Bryan, Texas.Brandon Bell / Getty ImagesMaxwell’s time at FPC Bryan, an all-women’s minimum-security facility, has come under scrutiny since her transfer there in early August from a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida. Her relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has become a focal point as Democrats and some Republicans renew their push to compel the Justice Department to make all investigative files surrounding Epstein’s case public.Turnage said she was not driven by public outrage surrounding Epstein, Maxwell or any other public figures, but acted because she felt “failed by the institution” when colleagues and others have spoken out about alleged leadership misconduct and retaliation.Noella Turnage.Courtesy Noella TurnageShe said the federal Bureau of Prisons fired her on Nov. 10. The decision came a day after the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, wrote a letter to President Donald Trump saying they had received information from a “whistleblower” indicating Maxwell was working on filing a “commutation application” and receiving special treatment not typically afforded to inmates at Bryan. The information obtained by the House Judiciary Committee included email correspondence that Maxwell sent during her first few months at the prison camp.Leah Saffian, an attorney for Maxwell, said Friday that employees at FPC Bryan lost their jobs in light of Maxwell’s emails being shared.There have been employees “terminated for improper, unauthorized access to the email system used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow inmates to communicate with the outside world,” Saffian said in a statement.NBC News previously reviewed Maxwell’s emails which indicated she was “happier” with her move to a facility that was cleaner and where staff were friendly.Maxwell’s emails also suggested she had direct access to Bryan’s warden, Tanisha Hall, for help, including arranging visits and communicating with her lawyers — actions that are highly unusual, other attorneys with clients at the prison say.The BOP and Hall did not respond to requests for comment about employees terminated in connection with Maxwell.Turnage said she was in contact with the House Judiciary Committee after Raskin wrote a letter to Hall on Oct. 30 asking about Maxwell’s perceived “VIP treatment.”In that letter, Raskin said he was alarmed by news reports that the prison was giving special accommodations to Maxwell’s visitors and other alleged perks, such as meals sent to her dormitory room, late-night workouts and the ability to shower after other inmates were already in bed for the night.His inquiry also raised other accusations made by inmates that they have been threatened with retaliation if they speak about Maxwell to the media. At least two inmates have been transferred out of Bryan after doing so, according to media reports that reviewed BOP records. NBC News has not confirmed the reason for the transfers.Turnage and another former Bryan employee, Ashley Anderson, said they spoke with House Democratic committee staff about allegations that BOP policy has been repeatedly violated and retaliation exists against those who report wrongdoing.Ashley Anderson.Ashley AndersonAnderson, who had been a senior specialist officer at Bryan for a decade before she was terminated in August, said that she has tried to speak out in support of inmates who’ve reported alleged abuse but that there remain “flaws in a system that often lacks transparency, accountability, and fairness.”Saffian has called the release of Maxwell’s emails “improper” and denied that a pardon application had been made to the Trump administration. She also said she would be filing a habeas petition with the Southern District of New York to challenge Maxwell’s 20-year prison sentence for recruiting minors to be sexually abused by Epstein.Epstein died by suicide in a New York City jail in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.Maxwell’s transfer to FPC Bryan in early August came days after she met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July. At that meeting, Maxwell told Blanche she never witnessed any inappropriate conduct by Trump or any other prominent figures associated with Epstein’s orbit, according to a transcript. Trump, whose name appeared in the unsealed records as a friend of Epstein’s before they had a falling out, has not been accused by authorities of any wrongdoing.Trump initially supported the release of documents related to Epstein before sparring with Democrats and some members of his own party, saying not all files should be made public.Last week, thousands of emails from the Epstein estate were released by the House Oversight Committee, including many that referenced Trump. On Sunday, Trump unexpectedly changed his stance on the issue, writing on his Truth Social account that House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide.”Turnage and Anderson said in a further statement that speaking to members of Congress about their time at Bryan was not about swaying the political narratives in the larger Epstein saga.“This was about truth, and nothing else,” they said. “It was about telling the truth about how both staff and inmates were treated.”Erik OrtizErik Ortiz is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital focusing on racial injustice and social inequality.
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 19, 2025, 6:07 PM EDTBy Andrew GreifAs one of the most in-demand head coaching candidates in the NFL, Aaron Glenn interviewed with several teams last season. But by his own admission, he wanted only one.The New York Jets. A former Jet before a highly successful career in coaching, Glenn promised changes during his introduction as New York’s coach in January. “Put your seat belts on,” he said, “and get ready for the ride.”Ten months later, that ride’s trajectory has gone straight down. And Sunday’s Week 7 loss brought the Jets closer to the misery the franchise hoped Glenn’s appointment would make a thing of the past.In a 13-6 loss to Carolina that dropped the Jets to 0-7, including 0-5 at home, New York benched the quarterback, Justin Fields, it had paid $30 million guaranteed to sign as a free agent only last spring. It’s just the third time in the Jets’ 65-year history, joining 1996 and 2020, that it has started a season 0-7, and Glenn is the franchise’s first coach to lose his first seven games.The Jets, the NFL’s lone remaining winless team, continued multiple worrying trends that have contributed to their winless season — uneven quarterback play, a porous offensive line and an inability to force turnovers on defense.”We have to be able to pull out these low-scoring games,” Glenn said Sunday. “The thing is, our guys are fighting. There’s no quit.”The Jets, who own the NFL’s third worst winning percentage (.350) since they last made the playoffs in 2010, are accustomed to head-shaking results. They entered last season with Super Bowl ambitions with quarterback Aaron Rodgers healthy, only to fire their coach and top football executive en route to a 5-12 record. Late in the season, The Athletic reported that the teenage sons of owner Woody Johnson influenced some roster decisions and that one trade had been nixed because the owner felt a player’s rating in the video game “Madden” was not high enough. (A Jets spokesperson at the time said the sons’ input was “used as a reference point.”)This season was intended to be a new era. Following the criticism of 2024, Johnson reportedly gave up some measure of control over team decisions, and the team’s new management cut loose Rodgers and signed Fields, a former high first-round pick. Then, in Week 1, they had to watch Rodgers gloat after he outdueled Fields to beat his former team.New York did not sign Fields, expecting a quarterback known more for his mobility than his passing ability, to dramatically change his game. Yet by Week 6, things had gone backward. Fields threw for only 45 yards, and New York finished with a franchise-worst minus-10 yards net passing.Entering Sunday, the Jets owned the NFL’s third-worst offense and 20th-ranked defense. Still, the matchup against the Panthers appeared to offer one of New York’s best opportunities this season for its first win. Though Carolina had won two consecutive games, it was hardly formidable, having been outscored overall for the season. The Panthers’ defense ranked 21st in points allowed.Yet the Jets’ offense was again impotent. It produced only 12 first downs on 11 drives and failed to score a touchdown in the first half for a sixth consecutive game — the first time the franchise has done that since 2000. With the ball near midfield in the final minute before halftime, the Jets did not even try to throw a Hail Mary, the first half instead ending on a sack.Trailing 13-3 in the third quarter, the Jets benched Fields, which Glenn, who had previously supported Fields, said was his decision. Fields’ backup, Tyrod Taylor, went on to throw two interceptions.Fields said he was “a little bit” surprised but “can’t be mad at the decision,” he told reporters. “I understand why.”Even as Carolina lost its starting quarterback, Bryce Young, to an ankle injury late in the third quarter and never scored again, the Jets still could not take advantage. Particularly eye-opening has been New York’s inability on defense to force turnovers; it has produced just one, fewest in the NFL, in seven games. Glenn’s defense in Detroit last season finished in the top third of creating takeaways. “Obviously, wins cure a lot in this league,” said Taylor, Fields’ successor. “And we haven’t had a chance to put one of those together.”The message has to be the same, the work has to still be done throughout the week, and us coming out and executing at a high level, one play at a time, is what we need on game day. Not spurts of it, not a quarter of it, not a half of it, but for a full four quarters.”Andrew GreifAndrew Greif is a sports reporter for NBC News Digital. 
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleNov. 2, 2025, 9:00 AM ESTBy Ben Kamisar and Bridget BowmanDemocrats have an early lead in next year’s battle for control of Congress amid an ongoing government shutdown, as more voters say President Donald Trump has not lived up to their expectations on several major issues that propelled him back to the White House in 2024, according to a new national NBC News poll.Around two-thirds of registered voters say the Trump administration has fallen short on the economy and the cost of living, and a majority say he’s fallen short on changing business as usual in Washington. At the same time, the Democratic Party continues to suffer from low ratings from voters as it seeks to offer an alternative.Meanwhile, the issue of protecting democracy and constitutional rights are top issues to voters, alongside costs, as Trump continues an expansive agenda of executive actions on immigration and other key policy areas. And a majority of voters believe he’s done more to undermine the Constitution than defend it.The president’s overall approval rating in the survey sits at 43%, a 4-point decrease since March, while 55% disapprove of his job performance.And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms. Democrats had a negligible 1-point edge, 48%-47%, in the March survey.“We will learn a lot in just a few days’ time in New Jersey and Virginia, among other elections, and what impact these results may have on the government shutdown,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the poll along with the Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies.“What we know is that this is an electorate that remains deeply unhappy with the status quo,” Horwitt said.Democrats’ lead on the congressional ballot is among the larger advantages they have enjoyed in any public polling in 2025. This poll was conducted Oct. 24-28, with a majority of respondents (52%) blaming Trump and congressional Republicans for the monthslong government shutdown — but historically high numbers blaming congressional Democrats, too (42%).One key question that has arisen during past government shutdowns is whether the politics of the moment persist throughout an election cycle, once a funding impasse has been resolved.Shutdowns can produce “unstable” moments in politics, McInturff said. “And in our experience, they tend to fade away,” he continued.A majority of voters still have negative views of the Democratic Party, and just 28% say they have positive views, essentially unchanged from a record-low rating in March. And Republicans retain strong advantages with voters on key issues including border security and crime, though Democrats have caught up on the economy.Voters, particularly Democrats, are also fired up about the next election. Asked to rate their interest in the 2026 elections on a 10-point scale, 66% of voters responded “9” or “10” — higher interest one year out than voters registered in the weeks preceding four of the five recent midterm elections.For Democrats, 74% rate their interest at “9” or “10,” while 67% of Republicans and 50% of independents say the same. That 7-point enthusiasm edge in the survey is on par with the 9-point enthusiasm edge Democrats enjoyed in the 2018 midterms.All together, it’s clear Trump is shaping up to be a major factor in next year’s midterm elections, with 70% saying they want their vote to send a message about support for or opposition to the president — the highest number in NBC News polling dating back nearly 30 years. A plurality of voters (40%) say they want their vote to send a signal of opposition to Trump, while 30% say they want to send a signal of support for Trump.The high election interest and focus on Trump also come as millions of Americans have participated in “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration. In this survey, 43% say they consider themselves supporters of the No Kings protest movement — with the group largely composed of Democrats but also including around 4 in 10 independents.Economic warning signsSpeaking on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” last December, before he took office, Trump distilled his 2024 victory down to two key factors: “I won on the border, and I won on groceries.”The new poll numbers show some warning signs for the president on both issues, especially the economy — as well as on a top voter issue of protecting democracy and constitutional rights, too.On economic issues, sizable majorities of registered voters say Trump and his administration have fallen short of their expectations on the cost of living (66%), looking out for the middle class (65%) and the economy (63%), with approximately one-third saying he has lived up to their expectations.Majorities of independents, as well as voters across ethnicities, age groups and economic circumstances, all say the Trump administration has fallen short on the economy. A chunk of Republicans also agree, concentrated among those who don’t view themselves as “MAGA Republicans.”The October 2025 results mirror NBC News’ polling in August 2010, months before midterm elections that were seen as a repudiation of President Barack Obama. At that time, two-thirds of Americans said Obama and his administration had fallen short of their expectations on the economy, as the country struggled through the aftermath of the Great Recession.Today, 61% say that their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living, while 31% say it’s staying even and only 6% say it’s going up faster than the cost of living — about in line with NBC News polling from the last four years.How the parties handle different issuesThe poll also found voters essentially split on the question of whether Democrats or Republicans would do a better job handling the economy, with 38% backing Republicans and 37% backing Democrats.That’s the smallest lead Republicans have had on this question in NBC News polling since December 2017, which was the last time Democrats registered an advantage. In September 2023, around the same period in the last election cycle, Republicans had a 21-point edge.Republicans posted sizable leads on three core issues: border security (a 31-point edge over Democrats), crime (+22 points) and immigration (+18 points), maintaining key advantages they’ve enjoyed in recent elections.Democrats have an 8-point edge on protecting constitutional rights and an 11-point edge on protecting democracy. That’s a turnaround from 2023, when Republicans had an 8-point lead on the issue of protecting constitutional rights and a 1-point edge on democracy.And Democrats’ 23-point lead over Republicans on handling health care is tied for their highest mark on the issue since July 2008.Divides on immigrationWhile Trump’s Republican Party enjoys significant advantages over Democrats on immigration-related issues, the president’s deportation program — and his administration’s tactics and use of executive power for that program and other goals — have sparked some public dissent.A narrow majority, 51%, say that Trump has lived up to expectations on border security and immigration.Yet 54% say that the Trump administration’s “deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops to various cities around the country to fight crime and immigration” are largely not justified, while 44% said that the deployments were justified.The poll also tests voter sentiment about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, whose agents are on the front lines of the administration’s deportation program. Thirty-nine percent of registered voters view ICE positively and 50% view it negatively. White voters are split in their view of ICE, while two-thirds of Black and Hispanic voters view the agency negatively.The share that feels positively about ICE is roughly in line with previous NBC News polls from 2020 and 2018. But the share with negative views has spiked, with those who view the agency “very” negatively nearly doubling since 2020, from 22% then to 40% now.Constitutional rights and democracyThe issues of protecting constitutional rights and democracy also show up in the poll as top concerns among voters.The survey asked respondents to rank their most important issues, offering other choices including overall cost of living, electricity and health care costs, political violence, immigration and border security and abortion.About a quarter of voters said that protecting democracy or constitutional rights was the single most important issue in deciding their congressional vote next year. But costs also loomed large, with 16% choosing cost of living, 10% choosing the cost of health care premiums and 4% choosing the cost of electricity.Another 10% said immigration and border security are their top issue, while 9% said dealing with political violence and 7% said abortion.“The fundamentals of our country and democracy, the Constitution, normally these are theoretical things that people don’t think about and take for granted. And it’s pretty clear that Americans are not taking them for granted these days, and that’s true for whether they’re Republicans, Democrats or independents,” said Horwitt, the Democratic pollster.Fifty-two percent of voters said Trump has done more than previous presidents to undermine the U.S. Constitution than to protect it, while 31% say he’s done more to protect the Constitution.Dim views of both partiesThere are clear opportunities for Democrats in Trump’s polling struggles. But even as they hold leads over Republicans on the congressional ballot and on some key issues, the party’s overall standing hasn’t improved from record lows.Just 28% of registered voters say they have a positive view of the party, compared to 27% in March, while 53% view the party negatively. The Republican Party has higher marks: 37% view it positively and 46% view it negatively.As in March, one big difference between the two parties — and one reason why the Democrats have lower marks overall — comes from how voters view their own parties.Seventy-eight percent of Republicans say they view their party positively and just 8% say they view it negatively. But for Democrats, 59% view their party positively and 22% view it negatively.Independents, meanwhile, have dim views of both parties, with less than a quarter of those voters holding positive views of either the Democratic or Republican parties.Gaza peace effortsThe poll also tested views on one of Trump’s major foreign policy efforts: his attempts to broker peace in Gaza, where Israel and Hamas have spent two years at war.Voters are split on Trump’s handling of the war in general: 47% approve, 48% disapprove. That’s a dramatic improvement from how voters judged then-President Joe Biden’s handling of the war, which was at 34% approval in November 2023 and 27% in April 2024.But U.S. voters are deeply skeptical that Palestinians and Israelis will be able to form a lasting peace agreement. A previous ceasefire negotiated at the end of the Biden administration fell apart earlier this year, and Israel conducted strikes in Gaza soon after the poll concluded, with Israel and Hamas trading accusations of breaking the current ceasefire.Just 21% say they think Palestinians and Israelis will form a lasting peace, while 69% say they won’t — as high as that number has been in five instances of this poll question stretching back to 1993. Another 10% are unsure.When asked about whether U.S. troops should participate in any peacekeeping force in Gaza, 41% say they favor the use of those American boots on the ground while 54% disapprove.The NBC News poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters Oct. 24-28 via a mix of telephone interviews and an online survey sent via text message. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.Ben KamisarBen Kamisar is a national political reporter for NBC NewsBridget BowmanBridget Bowman is a national political reporter for NBC News.
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